Gill, William Wyatt, 1828-1896.

Cook Islands custom. - [Suva, Fiji] : Ratotonga : Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific ; Ministry of Education, [1979] - 28 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Reproduced from the author's The South Pacific and New Guinea, past and present.

Birth and childhood -- Maturity -- Marriage -- The tribe -- Social and domestic -- Wizards -- Death -- Spirit world -- Mythology -- Philology -- A song from the island of Mangaia (The praises of Enuataurere)

"This ... document, first published in 1892, describes some of the original customs of the Cook Islands. ... Illustrations from: Jottings from the Pacific / by William Wyatt Gill. London : Religious Tract Society, 1885, and Life in the southern isles / William Wyatt Gill. London : Religious Tract Society, 1876.

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Ethnology--Cook Islands.


Cook Islands--Social life and customs.

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